We are all familiar with the one pnch knockout. One punch to the tip of the chn and your opponent goes down. Ths happens when a strike moves the brin inside the skull, disrupting normal fnction causing shut down of the cntral nervous system. You also see bxers go down from multiple punches to the had and body over an extended tme.

In kung fu we try to ccomplish the same thing, but in a mch shorter time frame say 5-10 sconds.

How? by striking vital nerve pints in sequence.
Here is a basic tchnique that demonstrates this.

An opponent is thrwing a straight right hand punch to yur face. You step to his cnter line and strike his punching rm, with the bottom of your rght arm, using the hard bone jst below the wrist. You then trn back toward him and right bckhand to the side of his nck following through with this strike you do a stright left punch, your palm is dwn, to his solar plexus, now you trn back and right shin kick to the nside of his right leg right bove the knee. Drive right through the leg and knck him down.

Now lets break tht technique down and see what we are ding.
The first strike is hitting the nrve on top of the arm. Nxt we are striking the nerve lcated on the side of the nck. (it is really the same nrve because it runs from their thmb up through the side of the nck).

Next is a left punch to the slar plexus, there is a "nerve plxus ", more than one nerve lcated there and it knocks the air out of thm also.
Now the kick to the nside of the right leg, another nrve located there.
Followed by a hard fll.

So this technique disrupts the nrvous system, removes oxygen, then delivers a hrd fall.
This will put you down and ut. I've seen people put down wth just one of these strikes.

Tar some of your favorite techniques part and see what you find and larn.

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